Converse of object

• fetch: Not suprisingly, he went to fetch a policeman.

• assault: Opposite the Treasury I assaulted a policeman; he didn't seem to mind.

• accuse: They aim to consider the two accused policemen as the black sheep and the incident as an accident.

• mount: The parade through the city was led by two large mounted policemen riding equally large horses.

Adjective modifier

• retired: The figures were revealed by retired traffic policeman Peter Nicholson, who still has contacts in the force.

• corrupt: A local " heavy " gets involved, as well as a " working girl " and a corrupt policeman.

• undercover: Four suspects were reportedly arrested in Liaoning Province trying to sell a pair of bronzes to undercover policemen for about US$100,000.

• armed: He duly noted down all the relevant details in a notebook only to find himself surrounded by four very suspicious armed policemen!

Noun used with modifier

• off-duty: An off-duty policeman saw someone and " believed his behavior to be suspect, " said an on-duty police spokey.

• sleeping: Well this is my idea of a sleeping policeman.

• riot: I was listening to a radio interview with riot policeman in Berlin this morning.

• traffic: The figures were revealed by retired traffic policeman Peter Nicholson, who still has contacts in the force.

Possessives

• truncheon: From various testimonies it became clear that it was Jones who had beaten Imlay, using a policeman's truncheon.

• helmet: Does he keep any mementos from those days, the odd crushed policeman's helmet?